Additionally, the benchmark was only run on one core, and since the last-generation Kunpeng 920 capped out at 64 cores, this result was likely run on a virtual machine or some configuration where only one core was tested. That in turn means the multi-core score isn’t really useful and can’t tell us too much about how performant the full chips are.
Unfortunately, without a look at multi-threaded performance, power consumption, and efficiency, it’s hard to say how competitive Taishan V120 cores will be. For servers in particular, power and efficiency are key due to the cost of electricity, and even if Huawei’s latest server CPUs are fast, that won’t mean much if they consume tons of power.
Huawei is China’s showpiece, they have a lot of motivation to exaggerate. It’s probably not fake, but I do expect this to be a cherry-picked top 1% result.
This is great news though, the more competition, the better.
I’m so tired of people trying to ridiculously imply that everything coming out of Huawei is fake. The argument doesn’t even make sense as this isn’t from Huawei, this is an engineering sample given to an end user.
I realize you’re not exactly saying that, but it really gets on my nerves these days. For example, when the Kirin 9000s came out, people were saying Huawei was lying about it being a 7nm chip and that it was made in Taiwan from old stock or whatever. The problem with those claims are the only reason we knew it was a 7nm chip was because a CANADIAN company opened it up and determined it was indeed a 7nm chip. Huawei didn’t say anything and people were calling them liars for what Canadians were saying. It’s why there was the 4.9999G jokes since Huawei never claimed the 9000s was 5G.
Similarly in this case, it’s an engineering sample. Huawei again didn’t say anything. If you’re going to call someone a liar the person you’re accusing should have at least said something.
Oh please, another sinophobe. AMD and NVidia are America’s showpieces as well but you aren’t saying shit about that.
But you’re probably American, so forever and always: CHINA BAD
Fuckin’ idiots.
Oh please, another hapa with an identity crisis
A cherry-picked top 1% result is sort of what single-core performance is meant to evaluate.
Nice.
This is good news. I’m looking forward to more competition for chips. This will be better for us consumers. Prices will go down, and quality will go up.
its for servers because its not tied down by consumer software.
Huawei doesnt have a x86-64 license so they wouldnt have access to consumer desktop/laptop software, unless they choose to go arm and design a translation layer, on top of get a major os company onboard to use their design.
one of the strongest positions apple has is they control the entire vertical stack for their business except the fab, so its easier to tightly integrate hardware design to the consumer programs. huaweis software stack wouldnt hold up in its current state. servers dont care because all of their software is tailored specifically to hardware by said company.
Bold of you to assume that a Chinese company will care about licenses and patents. When they want to employ this Huawei will either purchase said license on the cheap or they will put up a giant middle finger and disrupt the market and patent holders.
Interesting, SMIC 7nm running production and having 5 year old performance instead of 10 year old performance
Call me when Zen 5 launches. Zen 3 is one generation behind AMD’s current flagship.
